Language Focus: The Object Clause

Properties: Recorder; Overhead Projector; Pictures

Teaching Procedures:

I. Showing aims

Have the students know what they will learn in this lesson and what they will do in this class:

1. Revise some useful expressions in Unit 4.

2. Train the students’ listening ability by doing listening work.

3. Revise the grammar: the Object Clause.

4. Write a short passage to train the students' writing ability.

II. Revision

Have a dictation. Dictate some useful expressions. Then ask the students to make sentences using the useful expressions:

1. as soon as possible;

2. That would be fine;

3. Keep doing something;

4. Hurry up;

5. Fall fast asleep;

6. Wake up.

For example:

1. Please come back as soon as possible.

2. Let’s go. That would be fine.

3. He kept me reading the passage for a long time.

4. Hurry up, or you will miss the train.

5. He listened to the light music and fell fast asleep.

6.I woke up early this morning.

My mother woke me up early this morning.

III. Listening

Listening Cassette. Books closed. Play the tape once or twice for the students to listen and do Exercise I in the workbook. Make sure the students can understand them. Show one or two students’ passage on the slide, check with the whole class.

IV. Practice

Part 2. Ask and answer in pairs with the help of the table in the book. Then pass the passage on to the students next to them, see if the students can use the Object Clause freely.

V. Write

Part 4. We can fill in the form in class. Get the students to give out their ideas about the travelling.

If there is no time, we can leave the writing work as homework.

VI. Game

Part 5. Play this game in class if time permits. Get one student to say a sentence, and he can't let all the students hear clearly, then one student may say: I can't hear him, another student may repeat the sentence, Begin with: He says that…

VII. Checkpoint 4

Go though Checkpoint 4 in the usual way. Explain any problems that the students may have. Get the students to go over the grammar notes. Make sentences using the useful expressions.

VIII. Workbook

For Exercise 2, have the students read the long sentences, first listen to the teacher, then get them to read individually .Pay attention to the sentence stress, pause and intonation.

For Exercise 3, have the students make up the sentences, see who can make the most sentences, and make correct sentences.

Do Exercise 4 as homework.

IX. Summary

Exercise in class

短文改错

在下列短文中，每行的错误不多于一处，有的没错，如有错，请找出并改正，如没有错，请打“√”。

Last week my parents and I took a two-day trip to Emei

Mountain in Sichuan. As everyone knows, it’s famous 1. ____________

mountain with all kinds of plants and animals. The weather 2. ____________

was fine. It was about noon we arrived at the foot of 3. ____________

the mountain. The three of them were very excited. As we 4. ____________

climbed the mountain, we fed monkeys, visiting temples 5. ____________

and told stories. On the way up I was busy taking picture 6. ____________

since the scenery was so beautiful. The time passes quickly. 7. ____________

Evening came down. We spent the night in a hotel at the top 8. ____________

of the mountain. The food was expensive and the service was 9. ____________

good. I was so tired that I fell asleep at the moment my 10. ____________

head touched the pillow.

Answers：

Last week my parents and I took a two-day trip to Emei

Mountain in Sichuan. As everyone knows, it’s ∧famous 1. _____a_______

mountain with all kinds of plants and animals. The weather 2. _____√______

was fine. It was about noon ∧ we arrived at the foot of 3. ___when______

the mountain. The three of them were very excited. As we 4. ____us _______

climbed the mountain, we fed monkeys, visiting temples 5. ____visited____

and told stories. On the way up I was busy taking picture 6. ____ pictures__

since the scenery was so beautiful. The time passes quickly. 7. ____passed____

Evening came down. We spent the night in a hotel at the top 8. ____ down ____

of the mountain. The food was expensive and the service was 9. _____but _____

good. I was so tired that I fell asleep at the moment my 10. ____ at _____

head touched the pillow.

X. Homework

Finish off the exercises in the workbook.